Harry and Lucy Concluded: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons, Volumen1R. Hunter, 1825 |
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66 My dear afraid air pump AMELIA OPIE answered bell bottom brother called camera obscura cotton cried Harry cried Lucy curl cylinder damp dare say dear Harry dear Lucy engraving exactly explain father glad guess hair Hanbury hand happy Harry and Lucy Harry asked Harry's head hear heard Heights of Abraham hope hygrometer invention JAMES HOGG knew ladder learned look Lucy's mamma MARIA EDGEWORTH Matlock measure mind moisture morning mother motion mountain muslin never observed Oroonoko papa petrifactions piston plate portable barometer Price 11 pulled puzzle quicksilver recollect remember repeated rollers Romance silk silk-worm spiders spindles spinning jennies stalactites stay steam engine stopped sulphuric acid suppose sure talking tell thank ther thing thought thread tired told trunk tube turned twisted uncle understand vacuum valve Vols walk weight wheel wish
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Página 168 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the fields of air.
Página 127 - When she had first learned them by rote, barometer and air pump had been so jumbled in her head, that she could not understand them. " How up exhausted tubes bright currents flow Of liquid silver from the lake below; Weigh the long column of th...
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Página 168 - ... employed in driving forward vessels on the water. This prophecy, at the time it was made, most people thought merely poetical; and instead of expecting that it would be soon accomplished, it was thought that it would never be effected:— "' Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam ! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car.
Página 90 - ... again thought of the man who had talked prose all his life, without knowing it; but she refrained from making an allusion to him, though it was ready on her lips. Harry recalled to her mind the experiments which their father had shown them two years ago.
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Página 166 - Now his hard hands on Mona's rifted crest, Bosom'd in rock, her azure ores arrest; With iron lips his rapid rollers seize The lengthening bars, in thin expansion squeeze ; Descending screws with ponderous fly-wheels wound The tawny plates, the new medallions round ; Hard dyes of steel the cupreous circles cramp, And with quick fall his massy hammers stamp.